sarah; in progress

Atheist, cat-loving, blog-writing, tea-drinking, hypothyroid, bibliophiliac, anxious depressive asthmatic 💡🦊📝⛾💊📚😨😳🚭

[succumbing-song]

[thememedaddy]

[cloudmancy]

unreasonably charmed by Pendant in the shape of a ram's head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass

[cloudmancy]

I never thought about this... you're right, that's awesome

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[liberalsarecool]

Zohran Mamdani is using New York City to show the world how progressive policies work for everyone. #DemocraticSocialist

[contemplatingoutlander]

Well, he's showing the 21st Century US how progressive policies work. The rest of the wealthy, developed nations already know how well they work. And Americans in the 20th century when FDR and LBJ were presidents understood how well they worked.

Reagan and the GOP spent 50 years brainwashing Americans into thinking that the government is the enemy, and we will all be prosperous if we give the rich tax breaks and let the money "trickle down."

And so now we have Trump, who gave the rich huge tax breaks, which led to a spiraling deficit, and Trump cutting back on Medicaid, ACA support, SNAP, and other social benefits in order to have enough moneyto fund ICE, his war, his ballroom, etc.

When are working class MAGA going to realize they've been played by decades of GOP propaganda?

[spankerella]

I think we all should.

[lawbreaker13]

YES

[iguanodonwildman]

Hey! Just a reminder! AO3 does NOT have an app. This garbage was made by theives who steal fan artist’s work and sell it back to you.

“Oh, but it’s free!” There are ads. They are making money off of this. They are stealing from the creators you love and you are hurting those same creators if you use this app or any similar app.

Don’t use it. Report it at every opportunity.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

you get a comment on tumblr. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a DM. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a message on instagram. its a bot trying to scam you. you're an author and you get an email telling you how much they loved your book and want to showcase it at their bookclub. it's a bot trying to scam you (and it uses bad AI to pretend it knows your story). you get a comment on ao3 saying how much they love your fic - and they made you fanart!! it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a hate comment on ao3 which insults your writing or calls you a monster for writing something "problematic". it's a bot. but at least that one isn't trying to scam you.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

there's just something really cruel and insidious about this wave of scams going after creatives. You get an email and think someone genuinely loved what you made but - no. It's another scam. It's someone trying to trick you into sending them money. On AO3, it might literally just be a bot someone made specifically to be a hateful little shit.

putting the stuff you've made out there for everyone to see is hard and scary and we're all just bumping around looking for a bit of appreciation and love and connection and these bastards are using that to try to rob us. I hate it.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Im going go get into the sea and stay there

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

okay come forward which of you reposted this to reddit lmao I SEE YOU

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Okay everybody go leave a comment on the fics you're reading, find your favorite author's social media and tell them you liked their book, and comment on your favorite artist's YouTube or Bandcamp page, go go gooooo.

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

[wombatsrus]

We are not in the business of policing each other. EVERYWHERE.

It is our human purpose to help each other.

If you see someone steal food, hop on a bus for free or jump a turnstile...

no you didn't.

We exist, we are supposedly free to do so within the confines of the system. When those confines make it too hard to exist, we Work Around Them. Everyone always has that right.

[the-haiku-bot]

We are not in the

business of policing each

other. EVERYWHERE.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[ohlivish]

hey did ya'll know that ed sheeran is working on a series of 6 albums named after media player buttons and the first one released last year and the last one is to be released posthumously on the day that he dies

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about Ed Sheeran to prove otherwise

[knifefarty]

…huh

[varchaiiart]

relistening to the audiobook and got inspired!

[steadynightruins]

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft “Integrity” after reuniting with it in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha following their splashdown.

[flunkett]

nasa to the artemis crew: right no pit stops at jupiter alright? moon and back

artemis: no worries

nasa when they return: so how was it

artemis crew, suspiciously stupider than before: how was what

[thegreenaper]

[alexxuun]

Grace think fondly of his scar if you even care.

[alexxuun]

Grace think fondly of his scar if you even care.

[gothiccharmschool]

From Christopher Rice:

The exact date that INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE was published has been much debated online. Was it April 12th or May 5th?

We went to the source at the Anne Rice archive at Tulane and found the answer in Anne’s own hand. A diary entry, written six days after publication, settles a question that's been quietly drifting around for years. April 12th has been the date most often cited online, but as you can see from her own diary entry, the official publication day was May 5th, 1976.

“Last week was madness. Official publication date was May 5th — Vicky sent a telegram which was phoned Congratulations, etc. Nice."

Vicky Wilson is Anne's longtime editor at Knopf. You can see from the handwritten entries that a book signing event happened that evening at Minerva’s Owl in San Francisco to celebrate the book release.

[weary-hearted-art]

Walasse Ting, Grasshoppers, 1964